Delicious Death

The Labours of Hercules
To Edmund Corkof whose labours on behalf of Hercule Poirot I am deeply appreciative this book is affectionately dedicated

UK

Collins, London, Sep. 1947

US

Dodd Mead, New York, 1947

Plot

In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet - reasoned the detective - like Hercules he had been responsible for ridding society of some of its most unpleasant monsters.
So, in the period before he retired, Poirot made up his mind to accept just twelve more cases: his self-imposed 'Labours'. Each would go down in the annals of crime as a heroic feat of deduction.